He lives outside New York City with his wife and children. He is also the writer-presenter of historical and art-historical documentaries for BBC Television. He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations), Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt’s Eyes and three volumes of A History of Britain. Simon Schama is University Professor in Art History and History at Columbia University in New York, and one of the best-known scholars in Britain in any field. ‘Provides an unrivalled impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events’ ‘Dazzling – beyond praise – He has chronicled the vicissitudes of that world with matchless understanding, wisdom, pity and truth, in the pages of this marvellous book’ ‘The most marvellous book I have read about the French Revolution’ Â Â Eugen Weber, The New York Times Book Review ‘Monumental … provocative and stylish, Simon Schama’s account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to it, is thoughtful, informed and profoundly revisionist’ One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama’s Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced. : Simon Schama : Alfred a Knopf : A Chronicle of the French Revolution : 1989-3 : 948 : USD 40.00 : Hardcover ISBN: 9780394559483.
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